Sound man busted at Obama appearance

The audio engineer, whose name was not reported, was part of ABC's crewcovering the presidential visit. He was brought into the assignment by alocal cameraman hired by ABC, TVNewser report on the Web sitemediabistro.com.

The pot was discovered as the sound man and the cameraman were goingthrough the routine Secret Service security sweep. Federal agents turnedhim over to local authorities, the report said.

"While we did not hire this soundman directly, we certainly regret thatthe Secret Service and local authorities had to waste their valuabletime dealing with this matter," ABC News spokesman Jeffrey Schneidertold TVNewser.